Thrummie Bizzum

Tag: figure drawing

  • Bum Day

    Bum Day

    My little pot of caput mortuum sketching blend died a death today. (is that a niche joke?) Naturally I have forgotten exactly what I put in the pot, so I searched my blog. Naturally when I wrote about making the mix, all I wrote was ‘mixed with medium’. Ha. Waggled some of my sketchbook pages…

  • One Hundred and Fifty

    One Hundred and Fifty

    Day 150 feels like a milestone, and I am thinking about how this daily practise has changed me. I saw a thing the other day online, and I can’t remember where it was, but it was a commentary that said that if you commit to doing art/creativity as a daily practise for X amount of…

  • Turquoise Hair

    Turquoise Hair

    Today I did some practise with gestural figure drawing, and a bit of colour. I like what happened here. Til the morn, Suzanne 145/200

  • Five Minute Figure

    Five Minute Figure

    This is a challenging reference, and I’ll probably give it a few more attempts, but this is today’s sketch. Might get some painting done tomorrow. Til the morn, Suzanne 136/200

  • Pinktastic

    Pinktastic

    I always have an odd day recalibrating after visitors, even if the main visitor has four legs. A change of routine, even just for three days, takes me a minute to come back from. With that in mind, I’m being kind with myself for not getting much at all done today, other than scrolling in…

  • Caught in Motion

    Caught in Motion

    This week’s Let’s Face It class is by Juna Biagioni, and I just adore her. The objective of the lesson was creating a portrait of a figure in motion, and I decided to go my own way with the reference image, and use one I have sketched previously, because I thought the messy, energetic monoprinting…

  • Monotype Monday

    Monotype Monday

    Monday is Let’s Face It class day, and this week it’s a Juna Biagioni monoprinting exercise. I love monoprinting, whether it’s gel printing or using other fun techniques, so this is my comfort zone. I’ve chosen an image I’ve sketched from before, and I have the permission of the photographer to use his photo as…

  • New Phone Bleurgh

    New Phone Bleurgh

    I have 104 blank painting surfaces that aren’t paper – stretched canvases, canvas boards, linen canvases, wooden panels and gesso boards. They vary in size from teeny tiny 4×5″ to 24×30″ and I have accumulated them over a long time. Some of them were lost in boxes in the garage, which is perhaps why more…

  • Crappy Day

    Crappy Day

    I do not like days like today. I smashed my phone screen. I’ve never managed that before, but wow did I smash it. I’m really frustrated because the phone is perfectly serviceable, and had a lot of life left in it. I am not one for replacing phones every five minutes, and had no plans…

  • Charcoal Perspective

    Charcoal Perspective

    I surprised myself by sticking with the goal and doing the 100 Day Project, and I surprised myself again today by tackling this week’s Let’s Face It class and completing it on the same day. Despite being a wee bit intimidated by the class objectives… To use charcoal powder and a square Sofft tool to…

  • Operation Sketchbook

    Operation Sketchbook

    100 Day Project Day 96 I’m still thinking that it would be affa fine to finish one of my sketchbooks alongside completing the 100 Day Project, so I’ve put little page markers in the book to mark out how many pages I need to fill each day to get it done. It’s basically two spreads,…

  • Unsettled

    Unsettled

    100 Day Project Day 70 Things are not very easy at the moment here in Bizzum Towers. Our government (Scottish) is in the process of collapsing, and a bunch of right wing bangers are eyeing power, and some of them are within the party clinging to power, and some are not. It is very unsettling,…